Wastage of entire day’s work due to my manager

My manager had assigned new work for me after a long vacation with the same irritating account team with whom I had worked earlier, and this opportunity had a very short turnaround time. In addition, my manager had shared a few snippets about the opportunity and had requested me to collate a few slides with a relevant storyline. Trusting his inputs, I had collated all the slides that he had requested for and even framed storyline with my thought process. After sharing the initial version to my manager, he requested me to schedule a call with onsite and offshore delivery team to get further insight about the opportunity. I was confident about my work and with self-boost, I scheduled the call with the team to get further information, the call started with my deck in presentation mode and within few minutes, the onsite team stopped me from going on further. I was shocked by this response from the onsite team and post response the onsite team clearly explained all the stakeholders, the exact requirements from the client, and the information required from us. This was completely different from what my manager had shared, and my work was completely thrown out, to know more please feel free to check out the posts in “G R Team Sites”

Drafting out plan for the on-site team

After knowing that I was pulled back into old service requests post my vacation, now I had to make some working plans to sort out issues with the on-site team and milestones for each day to get sign off from each owner. On the first day post my vacation, I was extending my entire day to figure out a plan to work those irritating people and in meantime, I was requesting the offshore delivery lead to list down all queries that require attention from the on-site team and also define deadlines to get those inputs or we will go ahead with our assumptions. Finally, at end of my day, I had everything on my table and was drafting mail to the on-site team and even before I could drop this mail to them, I get another mail from the on-site team to set up daily calls in the morning for the status update discussion. I got completely furiousness about this attitude because of two main reasons, one because of the fact that they didn’t even get my mail about my report and another one was that I completely hated to take early morning calls. To know more about what happened, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

Compromising work between new and old team

So, after getting insights from the new delivery team that I have a limited role to play and for the next two weeks I can be on standby move to see if there are any possibilities for my contribution. I was looking forward to enjoy my leisure time and this entire plan was completely ruined by my previous work. My old work with most irritating delivery & account teams had come back again and for this time they want to share a few slides as justification within the next 2 days. I was completely taken aback with sudden requests out of nowhere and if my new work requires high bandwidth as predicted, I would have choked out with this request. Informally I conveyed to the delivery person that I have been looped into a new opportunity and by your good luck it turned out to be limited work from my end. However, I was patiently explaining that if at all they require last-minute support I have no other option but to support that request due to the priority of work order in my table. He completely agreed and was conveying to me that it requires very minimal effort from my end and it can be completed in a few hours. All these conversations are happening informally and I haven’t spoken to my manger yet, to know more about its continuation, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”


Working again with same onsite team for new service request

After completing the earlier opportunity in association with my manager, I was hoping that during my next work, I can work in more relaxed and comfortable way. However, after coming back from the weekend I had another shocker. Onsite team from earlier service request has come back again this time with new opportunity and request addressed directly to me for the support. Both my manager and myself had no other option but to work on the service request and I was completely anxious about the work. I was praying that this time the work would be much more relaxed and simplified than the earlier ones. I had to schedule call with both onsite and offshore teams to ensure that we are on same page. The call started and to my surprise the offshore delivery person, who I had worked earlier joined the call. The most problematic concern with that delivery person is that he would never support or defend my work. He always wanted onsite team to take ownership and if at all he is required to provide input, he would assign his teammate to share the inputs. To know more about what happened, please feel free check out “G R Team Sites”

Concern and positives about the complicated opportunity

As I mentioned earlier, I was roped in to support this complicated opportunity with a delivery team, which works on weekends and wanted different representations & my continuous support and presence in all their calls. When I say complication associate with this opportunity, I should also detail about the positives about this opportunity and delivery team. This is one the used to teams, with whom I worked earlier, and the delivery partner was kind enough to drop note to my manager about the hard work I put in and appreciating my continuous support for the opportunity. Their appreciation mail was instrumental in getting recognition among my team members and was instrumental in awarding me the first rating in my team. So, I was both happy and nervous about this opportunity because of two reasons: one is because the timeline to support this opportunity is very short and the other is, they make too many iterative changes resulting in redundant work for me. To know more, continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Discussion about the slide share by me and offshore lead

Since the on-site team was fine with the slide that I have shared to them, the offshore delivery lead was again asking about the slide update in the next call. I was completely taken aback and was conveying to the offshore delivery lead that onsite team was fine with that slide and they would customize it based upon their customer needs. Offshore lead took this comment personally and was again pointing out that my slide was not coming out in better way and he has better slide representation in his mind. Now everyone in the call was silent and to my surprise the on-site POC was again quoting that slide from me was good enough to address customer requirements. Delivery lead was still not convinced and was asking multiple questions on the slide that I have shared and now the on-site delivery lead was requesting the offshore delivery lead itself to share the slide that he has in mind. Now offshore delivery lead was taken aback, and he started to search in his repository for the slide. Know more about what happened from “G R Team Sites”.